10 countries are already using a Central Bank Digital Currency. More than 100 others are developing one
(www.atlanticcouncil.org)
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Who wants to bet in their rush to create a new money laundering route,governments cut corners and it leads to hackers just making this their bitch?
It certainly will, but its main purpose will be government control of spending. They mean this to replace cash entirely, and then they'll have control over who can access their money and what they can spend it on.
Buying your third soda of the week? Too much sugar, so the nanny state has decided you can't buy that. Oh you want a beer instead? We've determined your alcohol consumption is too high, so you can't have that either.
Why do you need all that gas? Planning a trip out of town? Well that's bad for the environment, so you can't have your gas.
You've already bought your 100 grams of red meat for the month, so it's plant based or bugs from now til the 30th.
Oh, you attended this protest against our digital currency policies? Well that makes you an undesirable, so no more money for you.
That's the future.
You see this is why can't have tiered citizenship even though it might be a solution to filter out all the drains and wasters from the voting pool.
Because governments keep trying to 1984 this shit than Starship troopers
The last thing governments want is for the people who care the most and depend on them the least to be the only ones who can vote.